The Coach's Journey - build a coaching business with integrity
Robbie Swale
Coach’s Journey founder Robbie Swale and a team of hosts interview coaches about how they created a successful business and how they create impact for their clients.
Through these conversations, you can learn how each coach came to coaching, grew their coaching practice and found their way to the successful business they have today. Each interview, like each journey, is different. But each is also packed with insights, tips, suggestions and ideas to grow your coaching business and have even greater impact creating change in the lives of your clients. Past guests include life coaches, business coaches, executivecoaches, career coaches, leadership coaches and more. Some are household names; some are coaches you’ve never heard of. All of them share ideas on the key topics for creating a coaching business: money, fees, impact with clients, training and more. About Robbie: Robbie Swale is a leadership coach, podcaster and the author of four books. He has trained with masters in the field of coaching and building coaching businesses, including Rich Litvin, Robert Holden and guests on the podcast like Katie Harvey and Myles Downey. He is the creator of The Coaching Business Flywheel, which attempts to boil down everything he has learned from many years supporting coaches to grow their businesses and interviewing amazing coaches on this podcast, into one simple, actionable model. Subscribe and read more about the podcast, The Coach’s Journey Community and get the free ebook An Introduction to The Coaching Business Flywheel at www.thecoachsjourney.com
Through these conversations, you can learn how each coach came to coaching, grew their coaching practice and found their way to the successful business they have today. Each interview, like each journey, is different. But each is also packed with insights, tips, suggestions and ideas to grow your coaching business and have even greater impact creating change in the lives of your clients. Past guests include life coaches, business coaches, executivecoaches, career coaches, leadership coaches and more. Some are household names; some are coaches you’ve never heard of. All of them share ideas on the key topics for creating a coaching business: money, fees, impact with clients, training and more. About Robbie: Robbie Swale is a leadership coach, podcaster and the author of four books. He has trained with masters in the field of coaching and building coaching businesses, including Rich Litvin, Robert Holden and guests on the podcast like Katie Harvey and Myles Downey. He is the creator of The Coaching Business Flywheel, which attempts to boil down everything he has learned from many years supporting coaches to grow their businesses and interviewing amazing coaches on this podcast, into one simple, actionable model. Subscribe and read more about the podcast, The Coach’s Journey Community and get the free ebook An Introduction to The Coaching Business Flywheel at www.thecoachsjourney.com
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Dec 5, 2019 • 1h 43min
Episode #3: Minor Arias - Living by Design
Minor Arias is a Costa Rican coach and entrepreneur and the author of two forthcoming books: VIVE por DISEÑO (LIVING by DESIGN) and Ya soy Coach, ¿y ahora qué? (I’m a coach, now what?). After 17 years working, managing and leading in multinational corporations, Minor became the first Hewlett Packard employee to receive coaching training in Costa Rica and set off on a journey into the world of coaching. It wasn’t all plain sailing, though: at the end of his first year as an entrepreneur he had made less than he would have in a month at Hewlett Packard and was on the edge of bankruptcy. Then a chance encounter via Toastmasters set him off on a journey to the thriving coaching business he runs today.In this episode, we talk about:- How Minor didn’t find coaching, coaching found him.- Why he chose to focus his work around coaching and not two other things he loves: speaking and training.- The simple calendar tool that his first coach taught him which led to turning his failing coaching practice around.- The origins of his new company, Vive Por Diseno (Living By Design).- What Minor has learned from founding that company: three key ideas for designing your own life.Plus, listen out for my incredibly shaky Spanish and Minor’s beautiful English and wonderful accent.For more information about Minor, visit www.lideresdeterminados.com or find him on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/minorarias/For full show notes, an extended biography of Minor and more about the podcast’s host, Robbie Swale, The Coach’s Journey podcast as a whole and The Coach’s Journey group programme, visit www.thecoachsjourney.com.For information about Robbie’s wider work and writing, visit www.robbieswalecoaching.com.Music by My Good Man William: listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/4KmeQUcTbeE31uFynHQLQgThings and people we mentioned (that you might be interested in):~22 - John Maxwell Team and Certification: https://johnmaxwellteam.com~24 – The 360 Degree Leader by John Maxwell~28 – Toastmasters: https://www.toastmasters.org/~45 – Toastmasters Costa Rica: https://www.toastmasters.org/Find-a-Club/05159852-toastmasters-costa-rica~51 – Jason Leonard: https://www.linkedin.com/in/%E2%98%85jason-leon-l-i-o-n-9k-followers-%E2%98%85-33594a32~60 – The Prosperous Coach by Rich Litvin and Steve Chandler~60 – The other podcast guest I mentioned, who read the Prosperous Coach and was relieved to find she was already doing it, was Katie Harvey. Listen to the full interview with Katie here: https://www.thecoachsjourney.com/podcast/episode-1-katie-harvey-14000-hours-of-coaching-being-part-of-the-uk-coaching-vanguard-and-being-a-generalist-coach
Nov 14, 2019 • 2h 5min
Episode #2: Phil Bolton - From Forensic Accountant to the Go-To Career Coach in London... and on to work with CEOs, MDs and Founders
Phil Bolton is an International Coaching Federation Accredited Master Coach. After training as a forensic accountant and then working as an in-house coach at Deloitte in California, Phil moved back to his native UK and set out to become the go-to career coach in London. Then, after supporting hundreds of clients to take control of their career and find work they love, he started his second coaching business: supporting leaders and organisations that are pushing the boundaries, innovating and aiming to creating a better and more joyful world.Phil was also fundamental in Robbie’s (and many others’) development and learning as a coach through his now ‘resting’ coach training organisation, The Coaching School. Through that experience and others, he carries a wealth of experience in how to create amazing coaching experiences for clients on everything from holding boundaries with clients, to co-creating and partnership, to sales.In this episode, we talk about:- How he transitioned from forensic accountant to the go-to career coach in London, including how he created and developed that niche.- What he learned about how to structure a coaching engagement for someone changing careers from coaching hundreds and hundreds of people going through transition.- Why he left behind a full practice working with career changers to shift to working with MDs, CEOs and owners not just coaching them but supporting them across their businesses.- The ‘hard’ third or fourth coaching session: why his favourite bit of coaching engagements is the moment where clients doubt if the change they want is going to happen.- What Phil has learnt about sales from 13 years of running his businesses.- Why building a business that supports his lifestyle and self-care is fundamentally important to Phil.For more information about Phil, visit www.phil-bolton.com or find Phil on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/lessordinaryliving/For full show notes, an extended biography of Phil and more about the podcast’s host, Robbie Swale, The Coach’s Journey podcast as a whole and The Coach’s Journey group programme, visit www.thecoachsjourney.com.For information about Robbie’s wider work and writing, visit www.robbieswalecoaching.com.Music by My Good Man William: listen on Spotify at https://open.spotify.com/artist/4KmeQUcTbeE31uFynHQLQgThings and people we mentioned (that you might be interested in):IPEC coaching training: https://www.ipeccoaching.com/Rich Litvin: http://richlitvin.comThe Coaching School: http://www.thecoachingschool.co.uk
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Nov 14, 2019 • 1h 47min
Episode #1: Katie Harvey - 14,000 hours of coaching, being part of the UK coaching vanguard and being a generalist coach
Katie Harvey has been coaching for more than 18 years. In that time, she has racked up more than 14,000 hours of coaching which, she says, is more than any other coach she has met over that time. She was part of the vanguard of coaches in the UK and for more than 12 years has worked to support other coaches: supervising and mentoring coaches and training new coaches, including through CoachU.In this episode, we talk about:- How she racked up more than 14,000 hours of coaching.- The advantages and disadvantages of being part of the vanguard of coaching.- The question of 'niche' and why Katie calls herself a generalist coach.- What business and pricing model Katie has settled on after 18 years of experimentation.- And how a trying a coaching sales technique on a photographer.... ended up with them getting married!For more information about Katie, email her at katie@katieharveycoaching.co.uk.For full show notes, an extended biography of Katie and more about the podcast’s host, Robbie Swale, The Coach’s Journey podcast as a whole and The Coach’s Journey group programme, visit www.thecoachsjourney.com.For information about Robbie’s wider work and writing, visit www.robbieswalecoaching.com.Music by My Good Man William: listen on Spotify at https://open.spotify.com/artist/4KmeQUcTbeE31uFynHQLQgThings and people we mentioned (that you might be interested in):~13 minutes: CoachU - http://www.coachinc.com/CoachU/~25: Vegard Olsen – https://coachingpartner.net/cp/en/vegard-olsen-2/~26: Laura Burkey - https://www.facebook.com/LauraBurkeyCoaching/~35: The Prosperous Coach by Rich Litvin and Steve Chandler - https://richlitvin.com/the-prosperous-coach/~46: Clare Pedrick - https://www.3dcoaching.com/claire-pedrick-mcc/~46: Bill Cummings - https://www.theboothbyinstitute.org/~70: Robbie’s video about how his coaching fees evolved over time - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-BSI5Cb8mU~80: Katie’s website - http://katieharveycoaching.co.uk/~96: Michael Neill - https://www.michaelneill.org/~99: Local International Coaching Federation Chapters: https://coachfederation.org/why-icf/chapter-map~99: Local Association for Coaching events: https://www.associationforcoaching.com/page/EventsOverview
